Chapter Summaries

Jiang Ce welcomed the amnesiac Na'er into the Duke's Mansion while Yan Lingji and Xiaomeng prepared to hunt down the remaining nobles. Yan Lingji's group attacked the Black Cloud Chamber of Commerce, captured Black Cloud Crane, and revealed that Xue Lingshan had already been defeated.

• Na'er met Jiang Ce's companions, joined them for a feast, and said she remembered only wandering alone.
• Jiang Ce assigned Yan Lingji and Xiaomeng's group to target the remaining noble households while Na'er stayed with him at the Duke's Mansion.
• At the Black Cloud Chamber of Commerce, Black Cloud Crane worried over missing Dark Blood Alliance shipments and his failure to find the Fierce Tiger Mercenary Group's culprit.
• Yan Lingji, her two clones, Xiaomeng, and another companion stormed the headquarters and quickly subdued Black Cloud Crane and his guards.
• Yan Lingji showed Black Cloud Crane Xue Lingshan's ducal seal and said the duke had already been captured, then ordered her puppets to keep Black Cloud Crane alive and find bugs.

Yan Lingji tortured the men who had handed hundreds of civilians to the Dark Blood Alliance, while Jiang Ce explained his plan for her to unify the Heaven Dou Empire and eventually the continent. The chapter left Yan Lingji resolved to help, with Na'er eager to grow stronger as her sister’s Protector Princess.

• Yan Lingji released venomous creatures onto Black Cloud Crane, Zhao Quan, and Liu Shirong as punishment for their role in kidnapping civilians for alchemy.
• Na'er learned what the three men had done and decided they deserved to die, while Jiang Ce comforted her outside the cellar.
• After the prisoners died, Jiang Ce ordered the cellar sealed and told Yan Lingji he intended to make her empress and have her unify the empire through standardized laws, measurements, and writing.
• Xiaomeng compared Jiang Ce’s plans for Yan Lingji to the First Emperor’s unification of the Qin State, and Jiang Ce admitted he meant to reshape the corrupt world from behind the scenes.
• Na'er asked what role she would have, and Jiang Ce named her the empress’s younger sister and Protector Princess; Yan Lingji then whispered instructions that made Na'er blush.

Jiang Ce and his companions devoured more than eighty Soul Beast corpses, raising their Venom symbiotes’ ages and Soul Power. After gathering his group, Jiang Ce set out for Heaven Dou Imperial City to crown Yan Lingji empress.

• Yan Lingji teased Na'er, while Jiang Ce made Na'er and Xiaomeng endure his tentacles’ embarrassing attention.
• Yan Lingji ordered puppets to buy fresh Soul Beast corpses, and more than eighty were delivered to the Merchant Guild plaza.
• Yan Lingji’s clones returned after escorting civilians to safety and fighting criminals and Soul Beasts.
• Jiang Ce and the others devoured the corpses, increasing their symbiote ages and Soul Power; Yan Lingji reached level sixty-eight, Xiaomeng level sixty-nine, and Na'er remained at level ten without her First Soul Ring.
• Jiang Ce told the group to go take Heaven Dou Imperial City and crown Yan Lingji empress.

Wang Hai presented evidence that the Fierce Tiger Mercenary Group had abducted more than ten thousand people and implicated Duke Xue Lingshan, but Heaven Dou Emperor postponed judgment and ordered an audit of the Black Cloud Chamber of Commerce. The imperial palace was then stormed by Yan Lingji and her companions, who confronted the emperor and declared that he would be replaced.

• Wang Hai reported that the Fierce Tiger Mercenary Group had trafficked people with the Black Cloud Chamber of Commerce and accused Duke Xue Lingshan of being behind it.
• Nobles denounced Wang Hai and defended Duke Xue Lingshan while Heaven Dou Emperor listened.
• Heaven Dou Emperor ruled that the evidence was insufficient for now but ordered the Palace Treasury to audit the Black Cloud Chamber of Commerce.
• The palace shook as an attacker broke through the gates, and a guard reported that the imperial palace had been stormed.
• Yan Lingji, her two identical companions, and a silver-haired swordswoman entered the hall, where Yan Lingji told Heaven Dou Emperor he was too old and should be replaced.

Yan Lingji confronted the Heaven Dou Emperor and his forces after demanding that he abdicate. She revealed overwhelming strength, defeated the palace’s strongest attackers with one sword strike, and left the hall’s defenders stunned.

• Sky Vulture Elder Xue Tianjiu, Lionheart Elder Leon, Silver Spear Elder Lin Shuang, Zhao Tieyi, and Xue Jianfeng led guards and knights into the hall to stop Yan Lingji.
• Yan Lingji revealed six black Soul Rings and activated all six of her Soul Skills, greatly increasing her power.
• Xue Tianjiu, Leon, Lin Shuang, Zhao Tieyi, and Xue Jianfeng launched their strongest attacks against Yan Lingji.
• Yan Lingji used the Sun-Eroding Sword Technique’s Seventh Form, Light of the Setting Sun, to defeat all five attackers with one strike.
• The Heaven Dou Emperor watched his final trump card fall, while Zhao Tieyi struggled up and ordered the guards to regroup.

Yan Lingji and Xiaomeng overwhelmed the Heaven Dou Emperor’s defenders, and Yan Lingji defeated Xuelan with a single sword strike. With the nobles and guards helpless and reinforcements still outside, Yan Lingji began using Heavenly Illusion to turn her enemies into puppets.

• Xiaomeng used Colorless World to freeze the hall, allowing Yan Lingji to melt the arrows and weapons with her ghostly blue flame.
• Yan Lingji transformed her sword into a barbed whip and battered the guards, leaving Zhao Tieyi, Xue Jianfeng, and the three worshippers badly injured.
• The Heaven Dou Emperor, Xuelan, used his Swan Avatar and Swan Ice-Seal Slash against Yan Lingji.
• Yan Lingji countered with the seventh form of the Sun-Eroding Sword Technique and struck Xuelan down, shattering his chest and destroying his Swan Avatar.
• Yan Lingji revealed her fox ears and nine tails, then activated Heavenly Illusion to make the remaining defenders her puppets.

Yan Lingji used her Heavenly Illusion to control the nobles, ministers, guards, and Heaven Dou Emperor, then took the throne and forced the court to hail her as Empress. Na'er sat beside Yan Lingji as the hall began shouting its allegiance.

• Yan Lingji controlled everyone in the hall while leaving them conscious and planted commands that made them punish themselves for resisting or harboring lustful thoughts.
• Yan Lingji walked to the throne, burned it with blue flames to disinfect it, and sat down.
• Yan Lingji forced the people in the hall, including the Heaven Dou Emperor, to kneel before her.
• At Jiang Ce's instruction, Na'er went to the throne, and Yan Lingji embraced her and seated her beside herself as the Protector Princess.
• The guards and others in the hall began shouting, “Long live the Empress!”

Yan Lingji crushed the Heaven Dou Empire’s nobles and imperial guards as she declared that the empire would take a new name and come under her rule as Female Emperor. With Yang Hai and the surviving guards forced to submit, the emperor and court faced the prospect of losing the throne.

• Yan Lingji forced the nobles to obey and punished an elderly marquis who challenged her claim to the throne by making him slap himself.
• The imperial guards charged the palace, but Yan Lingji’s clones broke their formation and overpowered them with whips and flying stone pillars.
• A clone defeated Yang Hai, the level-seventy-six imperial guard commander, and used her fox powers to make him submit to Yan Lingji.
• Yang Hai ordered the surviving guards to lay down their weapons and followed the clones into the hall, where the nobles, ministers, and Heaven Dou Emperor were prostrate before Yan Lingji.

Yan Lingji took control of Heaven Dou Imperial City and exposed the crimes of its nobles, declaring that the guilty would face the Ten Great Tortures of the Qing Dynasty. The nobles begged for mercy as she prepared to begin their punishment.

• Yan Lingji ordered Zhao Tieyi and Xue Jianfeng to seal the imperial palace and sent Yang Hai to seize control of the city’s gates and defenses.
• Yan Lingji forced the Heaven Dou Emperor to lead officials through the palace’s hidden chambers and treasuries so they could inventory its wealth.
• Yan Lingji sent her clones to control the city’s nobles and ordered officials to audit the imperial treasury and tax records.
• Yan Lingji compelled the nobles in the hall to confess to trafficking people, colluding with Evil Soul Masters, embezzlement, and other crimes.
• Yan Lingji sentenced the nobles to death under new laws but declared that they would first endure the Ten Great Tortures of the Qing Dynasty.

Yan Lingji took control of the Heaven Dou Empire, punished the nobles, and issued orders to reorganize the palace and seize noble estates. As Jiang Ce investigated the glowing Stone Bead, it opened a passage and brought two unknown women into the hall.

• Yan Lingji silenced the nobles and ordered them imprisoned, their relatives detained, and their estates searched.
• Yan Lingji issued new rules for the former emperor’s consorts, palace maids, male attendants, guards, and officials, while Xiaomeng and Na'er remained with her.
• Jiang Ce teased Xiaomeng, Yan Lingji, and Na'er as the Stone Bead began to heat up.
• Jiang Ce infused the Stone Bead with spiritual power, and two graceful figures tumbled into the hall from its crimson-gold light.

Jiang Ce brought Snow Maiden and the Tide Enchantress to the Heaven Dou Empire, gave them Venom symbiotes that strengthened their abilities, and claimed them as his mounts. Yan Lingji welcomed the two women and explained her rise to power before Jiang Ce ordered her to awaken their Martial Souls, along with Na’er’s.

• Snow Maiden and the Tide Enchantress appeared in the palace, where Jiang Ce’s tentacles changed their clothes and gave them information about the Douluo Continent and fivefold-enhanced abilities.
• Jiang Ce declared that Snow Maiden and the Tide Enchantress belonged to him and would become his mounts.
• Yan Lingji greeted the newcomers, asserted her seniority over the Tide Enchantress, and invited both women to sit beside her on the throne.
• The Tide Enchantress accepted Yan Lingji as her big sister after learning that Yan Lingji, Xiaomeng, and Na’er were already Jiang Ce’s mounts.
• Yan Lingji boasted about becoming empress and about Jiang Ce’s favor, then Jiang Ce ordered her to awaken the Martial Souls of Snow Maiden, the Tide Enchantress, and Na’er.

Yan Lingji helped Snow Maiden and Tide Enchantress awaken their Martial Souls and tested their Soul Power, then welcomed them into the family under Jiang Ce’s authority. After their clothes changed, Jiang Ce ordered everyone to rest and begin training the next day.

• Snow Maiden awakened a Jade Flute Martial Soul and Tide Enchantress awakened a Dream Illusion Butterfly, and both showed Innate Full Soul Power.
• Yan Lingji assessed Snow Maiden at the middle stage of the acquired realm and Tide Enchantress at the late stage of the innate realm, then Snow Maiden asked for warmer clothes.
• Black Venom tissue changed Snow Maiden’s clothes, while Jiang Ce’s power cycled Tide Enchantress through several outfits and gave Yan Lingji a fox-girl costume.
• Yan Lingji told Snow Maiden, Tide Enchantress, Na'er, and Xiaomeng that they were family and should listen to Master.
• Jiang Ce told them to rest and begin training the next day, and Na'er reluctantly accepted that she would train too.

Jiang Ce and his allies seized control of Heaven Dou City, raided the nobles’ estates, and uncovered hidden palace treasures. Yan Lingji took the throne and demanded to know how much the nobles had stolen.

• Yang Hai and the Imperial Guards locked down Heaven Dou City and raided the estates of dozens of nobles under the Empress’s command.
• Jiang Ce, Yan Lingji, and Xiaomeng dressed after Na’er fell asleep, while Jiang Ce let her continue resting.
• The Heaven Dou Emperor and the nobles knelt before Yan Lingji as the Imperial Guards displayed the treasure found hidden in the palace.
• Yan Lingji sat on the throne and asked the nobles how much they had stolen over the years.

Yan Lingji heard the scale of noble and official corruption, ordered condemned offenders publicly executed, and accepted Xuelan’s abdication. After Jiang Ce sent her a sweeping plan to remake the empire, she looked over the nobles and wondered aloud how the empire had become so rotten.

• Wang Hai reported the vast wealth seized from noble estates, while a treasury official revealed that only two and a half million Gold Soul Coins remained despite annual tax revenue of about thirteen million.
• Yan Lingji confronted Xuelan over his decades of ignorance and heard Wang Hai list officials’ embezzlement, bribery, and other crimes.
• Yan Lingji ordered corrupt officials, human traffickers, and collaborators with Evil Soul Masters executed publicly at the Crossroads Execution Ground at noon the next day.
• Xuelan read an abdication edict transferring the throne to Yan Lingji, who admitted she needed Jiang Ce’s help to govern.
• Jiang Ce sent Yan Lingji a comprehensive reform plan covering the administration, local government, examinations, law, oversight, military, and finances.
• After absorbing the plan, Yan Lingji surveyed the nobles and asked how the empire had become so rotten.

Yan Lingji proclaimed sweeping reforms to centralize the Heaven Dou Empire and strip the nobility of inherited power, while Jiang Ce warned her that resistance would follow. After the nobles fled, Yan Lingji spoke privately with her Master, and Xiaomeng suddenly collapsed as she tried to leave.

• Yan Lingji announced eight decrees abolishing kingdoms and fiefs, restructuring government, instituting examinations and uniform laws, and centralizing oversight, military forces, and finances.
• The nobles could not voice objections because a restriction bound them, and Yan Lingji ordered them to enforce her decrees under threat of execution.
• After the nobles left, Yan Lingji asked Jiang Ce how she had performed, and he warned that local nobles and kingdom remnants would resist the reforms.
• Yan Lingji said she would kill those who resisted, and Jiang Ce told her to keep killing until everyone obeyed.
• Yan Lingji used Phantom Dragon Impact while speaking with Jiang Ce, and Xiaomeng fell to her knees clutching her lower abdomen as she tried to leave.

Jiang Ce used his tentacles to restrain Yan Lingji, Xiaomeng, Tide Enchantress, and Snow Maiden in the palace hall, leaving Snow Maiden embarrassed and frightened. Afterward, Yan Lingji prepared to go see the nobles, and Tide Enchantress and Snow Maiden agreed to join her.

• Snow Maiden hurried away from Tide Enchantress, but Jiang Ce's tentacle dragged her into the hall, where Yan Lingji and Xiaomeng were already bound.
• Jiang Ce teased Snow Maiden and gently touched her with a tentacle while Tide Enchantress cooperated with being restrained.
• Snow Maiden and Tide Enchantress watched as Yan Lingji and Xiaomeng endured Jiang Ce's Phantom Dragon Impact.
• Afterward, Yan Lingji said the nobles were ready to be dealt with and invited Tide Enchantress and Snow Maiden to come along.
• Tide Enchantress agreed at once, and Snow Maiden nodded after hesitating.

Heaven Dou Emperor Xuelan publicly abdicated in favor of Yan Lingji, whose edicts dismantled the old noble order and centralized the Heaven Dou Empire. The citizens welcomed the reforms, while the fate of the kneeling nobles and the new regime remained to unfold.

• Imperial Guards paraded more than a thousand nobles and their families through Heaven Dou City, displaying their crimes and sentences as citizens cheered for justice.
• Xuelan appeared before the crowd, secretly constrained and terrified, and announced that he was abdicating in favor of Empress Yan Lingji.
• The Imperial Guard commander read Yan Lingji’s eight edicts, which abolished kingdoms and hereditary titles, established examinations and uniform laws, and centralized military and financial authority.
• A scholar explained the reforms to an old farmer, who realized nobles would no longer be able to seize his family’s land.
• The old farmer and the gathered citizens knelt and cheered for the empress.

Jiang Ce planned to build a disciplined army for the Net and summoned Yan Lingji to Xianyang City to copy Gongshu Chou’s Tyrannical Mechanism Art. He returned with its secrets and began considering how to combine them with Soul Tool technology to arm his forces.

• Yan Lingji proposed using her mental suggestions to make noble-born officers obey orders, while Jiang Ce emphasized training and military formations.
• Xiaomeng described the Qin army’s organization, and Jiang Ce proposed adapting heavy armor, Soul Beast mounts, and crossbows for the army.
• Jiang Ce used the Stone Bead to send Yan Lingji to Xianyang City, where she put Gongshu Chou under Heavenly Illusion and copied his memories and mechanism arts.
• Jiang Ce and Yan Lingji returned to the palace courtyard after the time-space force began pushing them out.
• Jiang Ce explained how the Tyrannical Mechanism Art’s weapons and vehicles could support an invincible army, then considered combining it with Soul Tool technology.

Yan Lingji assigned Tide Enchantress and Xiaomeng to create rival intelligence organizations, the Net and the Bad People, to monitor threats outside and inside the empire. She renamed the army the Heavenly Strategy Army and ordered its craftsmen to produce new weapons and armor under tightly controlled, compartmentalized methods.

• Yan Lingji put Tide Enchantress in charge of the Net, which would recruit three thousand former noble troops and operate beyond the empire.
• Yan Lingji appointed Xiaomeng to lead the Bad People, a separate organization tasked with monitoring officials and protecting the empire.
• Yan Lingji ordered the Net and the Bad People to be built within three days and told Na'er she would receive duties later.
• Yan Lingji renamed the empire's army the Heavenly Strategy Army and ordered new armor, shields, spears, and crossbows to be ready within half a month.
• Yan Lingji implanted forging knowledge in the craftsmen and required them to make separate components, warning that mental restrictions would punish anyone who leaked or independently assembled the designs.

Yan Lingji rewarded the Armory Department's craftsmen and reorganized the Heavenly Strategy Army as she prepared to rule Heaven Dou City. Jiang Ce took several women to Sunset Forest to strengthen them, while Yan Lingji and their clones stayed behind to manage the empire's affairs.

• Yan Lingji offered craftsmen titles, pay, homes, and educational privileges based on the armor they produced, and Zhang Tiezhu pledged his loyalty.
• Yan Lingji ordered the Heavenly Strategy Army to train under a new system, separate Soul Masters into their own battalion, and submit organizational rosters within three days.
• Jiang Ce advised Yan Lingji to create military flags, insignias, and medals to build soldiers' pride and loyalty.
• Jiang Ce shared the Celestial Fox Nine Thoughts skill, then set out for Sunset Forest with Xiaomeng, Snow Maiden, and Na'er while Tide Enchantress headed there separately.
• Xiaomeng and Tide Enchantress left clones to manage the Bad People and the Net, while Yan Lingji stayed in the palace with eight clones to oversee affairs and cultivate.
• News that the Heaven Dou Emperor had abdicated in favor of Yan Lingji spread rapidly.